Caring for Wildlife – how it all began

We are wildlife carers for the last 30 years. We are looking after orphaned and injured animals and raise them to be released back into the wild. We mainly care for Gliders (Sugar Glider, Squirrel Glider, Yellow Bellied Glider, Greater Glider, Feather Tail Glider and also Ring Tail and Brush Tail Possums). And, for the last three seasons, we are also a release station for Fruit Bats.

We know that Fruit Bats often make people uneasy or even
aggressive towards them. However, Fruit Bats are the most important
nocturnal pollinators in Australia, which many farmers have
recognised and found ways to protect their fruit crop without
harming the animals.

Forest Lodge Wildlife Care is now a Not-for-Profit Organisation (NFO) in Australia.

The costs of caring

The main costs for the animals are:

Food for Gliders

Food for Flying Foxes

Travelling

Medical Care

Maintaining Enclosures

As we are pensioners, the
monthly expense of well over $1,000.00 puts quite a strain on our
small budget. Therefore, we tried to absorb some of the costs by
renting out an apartment and a bungalow on our property through
airbnb. Because of the coronavirus pandemic and the prescribed
restrictions this income stream has all but dried up.

That’s
why we are asking for your help. Every donation for the animals,
even the smallest, would be greatly appreciated.

When you want to help us and our wildlife, please
consider making a donation:

Squirrel glider munching on a grasshopper

Commitment to the Environment

Although our main daily engagement is the rehabilitation of gliders and
flying foxes, it is the degradation of the natural world which concerns us
most. The devastating foot-print each and everyone of us is inflicting on
the environment results in a slow, but steady increasing environmental
instability.